In one of the more interesting experiments that have been conducted, Richard J. Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, wanted to find out whether facial expressions […]
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Pete Seeger is being remembered by many as a national treasure, a man who encouraged multiple generations of Americans to essentially rethink everything they were taught in school.
“Don’t be bored, make something” is a message that Joey Hudy, a self-described “maker” and STEM-advocate, has been taking to Maker events across the country.
A new book entertains the notion of how we can engage with those books that we haven’t read, or only skimmed, or perhaps only heard about.
If disruptions are threatening you from outside your industry, how can you see them coming?
Prejudiced and non-prejudiced people are equally likely to fall victim to the other-race effect.
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”- James Joyce
“I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”- Langston Hughes (born on this date in 1902)
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”- Jackie Robinson (born on this date in 1919)
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt (born on this date in 1882)
“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.” ― Emanuel Swedenborg (born on this date in 1688)
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (born on this date in 1873)
I’ve written a guest post over at Dean Burnett’s Guardian Science blog about an important piece of information that is not getting through to people who have had brain injuries. See […]
The brightest galaxy in a spectacular close grouping of three provides a beacon of insight into our far future. “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” -Benjamin […]
Expect haunted houses, roller coasters, or puzzle rooms that can quite literally scare you to death (after you’ve signed the waiver) and marketing that’s so in your face, it could kill you.
Crises are fundamentally psychological phenomena, they’re not driven by rational decision-making necessarily, they are driven by fear and somewhat driven by greed.
There is a lot of value in consistency, fluency, regularity. What’s especially tricky, though, is you also need to keep a brand vibrant.
One might say of Bach’s time, it’s unheard of to combine opera with a religious theme, my dear.
We normally think of the Big Bang as the very beginning of our Universe, but we now know the story goes back even before it. Here’s how. “The aim of science […]
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”- Lewis Carroll (born on this date in 1832)
As study after study shows, women receive an enormous amount of abuse for any online activity: whether as journalists, sex writers, performers. Just being a woman (online) is sufficient to […]
The Cyclops Polyphemus as a Metaphor for Western Civilization and its Linear Way of Reasoning “The Greeks only understand theories, but the Chinese are the people who own the technologies.” […]
Over recent years a new industry has exploded that sells educational interventions purportedly based on neuroscience to schools. In 2006 a paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience reported that teachers […]
Red-hot news Jan 26 – Beijing has sent another activist, Xu Zhiyong, to prison. He fought against corruption and social injustice. Washington and Brussels protested vehemently on Sunday, and on […]
A German top official with the Goethe-Institute in Shanghai once remarked that “marrying a Chinese woman will make you rich.” This statement was soon retracted, and the man repatriated, but […]
“Underdeveloped,” “immature,” “effeminate” – such adjectives from the life-sciences were often used to describe East-Asian cultures in the 20th century. By erroneously seeing ‘culture’ as an organic, living entity -a common metaphor […]
“Now, working elbow to elbow with billionaires, I was a giant fireball of greed.” –Sam Polk BREAK it down: Obscenely rich people from 2013 meet in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss […]
In a fascinating interview Stanford University psychological anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann describes meeting modern day “witches”, taking a “magic” course, experiencing bizarre (non-drug-induced) hallucinations and generally “hanging out in the magical […]
Many things puzzled the British student, on exchange somewhere on the Continent: what people ate, how they dressed, why they drove on the right. But nothing more so than the […]
“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to […]